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Personal recollections of an astrophysicist shed new light on the 1995 discovery on 51 Pegasi b

Washington DC (SPX) Apr 17, 2018
In recent history, a very important achievement was the discovery, in 1995, of 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet ever found around a normal star other than the Sun.
In a paper published in EPJ H, Davide Cenadelli from the Aosta Valley Astronomical Observatory (Italy) interviews Michel Mayor from Geneva Observatory (Switzerland) about his personal recollections of discovering this ex